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The noble Sterling, a radiant child of the empyrean, clad in bright auroral hues in the memory of all that knew him, what is he doing here in inquisitorial sanbenito, with nothing but ghastly spectralities prowling round him, and inarticulately screeching and gibbering what they call their judgment on him! He takes up Sterling as a clergyman merely.
"Go hang thyself, coward, or, if you choose, swim out to the Spaniard, and shift from thy wet doublet and hose into a sanbenito. Let the don come, shoot if he can, and land if he will! We'll singe his beard in Virginia as we did at Cales! 'The great St. Philip, the pride of the Spaniards, Was burnt to the bottom and sunk in the sea. the St. Andrew and eke the St. Matthew
Like many another prince who has come to a violent end, he was born to the wrong metier. "I derived the notion," he continued, "from a sanbenito in a Goya picture." "An ominous garb," said Bjelke, smiling curiously. "The garment of the sinner on his way to penitential doom." Armfelt cried out in a protest of mock horror, but Gustavus laughed cynically. "Oh, I confess that it would be most apt.
He glanced in their direction, then turning sharply, crossed the sand to stand for a moment beside the Franciscan. "Prithee, thou brown-robed fellow, how looked he in a sanbenito that tall, fierce, black-bearded Captain that your Provincial mentions here?" The parchment rustled in his hand.
It seems the first and therefore these words are a little turned, but infallibly stood in the first draught as a great argument for Popery. "They dress them up in a sanbenito." So, now we are to answer for the inquisition. One thing is, that he makes the fathers guilty of asserting most of the corruptions about the power of priests.
It followed that as converts to the Faith they were warmly cherished, and tears of thanksgiving were profusely shed over them by the Hounds of God. So much for their heresy. They were completely purged of it, having done penance in proper form at an Auto held on the Rocio at Lisbon, candle in hand and sanbenito on their shoulders.
"Good God!" thought Da Costa, sickening as he remembered the auto-da-fé he had seen at Lisbon in his boyhood, when De la Asunçao, the Franciscan Jew monk, clothed in the Sanbenito, was solemnly burnt in the presence of the king, the queen, the court, and the mob. "What if 'twas my tale to Frei José that led to Dom Diego's arrest!
Radomagos, phials or bottles of ink, vitriol, and other injurious matters, cast on the face, person, or clothes. Most of our readers will remember that the "sanbenito" is the long coat or robe, painted over with flames, which is worn by heretics whom the Inquisition has condemned and given over to the civil power. Calomels, for calumnies "What do you find lower down?" inquired Monipodio.
Even those who had been pardoned, and wore the Sanbenito, or penitential garment, bore traces of the horrors they had undergone. Some were feeble and tottering, from long confinement; some crippled and distorted by various tortures; every countenance was a dismal page, on which might be read the secrets of their prison-house.
Then came many penitents, their heads shaven, their feet bare, and clad, some in dark-coloured cloaks, some in yellow robes, called the sanbenito, which were adorned with a red cross.
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